I Am Confused Why We Have To Use A Round Number To Rate A Movie

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Like many here, I am a movie connoisseur. I like to rate movies according to how I feel about them and I am frustrated that when I want to rate a movie I have to round up or down, as opposed to just rating it how I feel (and if it has to have a second column, so be it!)

I feel this ruins the rating process a little. Here is a good example. I love the movie Smokey And The Bandit. The overall rating is 6.9. I feel it deserves a number somewhere between 7 and 8. But I don't like to rate 8 often. On the other hand, I feel 7 is too low for this movie. BUT there is no way this movie is an 8! Eeeek!

So I was forced to rate it 7...but it deserves more. Can someone please explain the policy to me? Thanks

I'm confused why you would need more than 10 stars on a scale. Most professional media that use star ratings traditionally use 4 or 5 stars, sometimes with the possibility of half stars, which amounts to ten values at most.